Clothes-tongs.



PATENTED JUNE 30, 1908.

D. F. PORTER. CLOTHES TONGS.

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DAVID F. PORTER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLOTHES-TONGS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 80, 1908.

Application filed January 30, 1905. Serial No. 243,430.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID F. PORTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Clothes- Tongs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to clothes tongs for lifting clothes out of hot water and the ob jects of my im rovements are, first, to pro- Vide a tongs w ich will prevent the clothes from slipping off of the same; second, to facilitate the ready and easy handling of the clothes; third, to make the construction cheap and so that there will be no waste of material; fourth, to make a strong and durable device and other objects to become apparent from the description to follow.

Heretofore clothes sticks and tongs that were constructed to absolutely prevent the clothes from slip ing ofl of the same were of such complicatec construction that the cost of their manufacture prevented their extensive use, but my invention will absolutely prevent the slipping of the clothes and can be made very chea ly without practically wasting any materia and of a simple and durable construction. Other objectionable features are also overcome by my invention, which is made from a single round or square stick. The stick is sawed into two halves longitudinally, the saw out near the business end of the stick or tongs being made in a zig-zag or corrugated form. These two halves are then secured together pivotally by a rivet or otherwise.

This invention pertains to certain novel features to be described in the specification and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

To better describe my invention I have illustrated the same on the accompanying sheet of drawing forming a part of this specification and in which:

Figure 1, is a side elevation; Fig. 2, is an edge view; Fig. 3, is a cross section on line 33 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, is a similar view of a modified form.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The tongs comprises the two members 5 and 6 which are pivotally secured together by the rivet or b t 7 which passes through perforations provided in the members 5 and 6 and located nearer to one end than the other of the same. I prefer to provide a washer 8 between the members 5 and 6 held in place by the rivet 7 to retain said members slightly so arated. The members 5 and 6 are made y cutting a single piece of wood preferably round in cross section and of the desired length, longitudinally through the center. To afford a better gripping end on the bite or business end of the tongs I prefer to make this longitudinal cut through the stick in a wave or zig-zag form as shown in Fig. 2. This form of cut provides the con cave portions 9 on the member 5 into which fit the convex portions 10 on the member 6.

Fig. 4 shows a modification in which the members 11 and 12 corresponding to the members 5 and 6, are formed out of a piece of wood which is square in cross-section.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United States is In clothes tongs two members pivoted together to swing about a common axis, the greater longitudinal portion of each of said members provided with a flat surface held in juxtaposition o posed to the flat surface of the other member, the flat surface of each member lying in a plane at right angles to said axis throughout so as to permit the bite end of one member to swing past the bite end of the other member in either direction and the opposing surfaces of said bite ends provided with intermeshingcorrugations.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in presence of two subscribing witnesses this 27th day of January 1905 at Chicago, Illinois.

DAVID F. PORTER.

IVitnesses;

MARY D. PORTER, R. J. JAeKnR. 

